Kitchen Classrooms

Columbia Falls Wildcat Garden

Columbia Falls is a small rural community located in the northern part of the Flathead Valley in Northwestern Montana, near the entrance to Glacier National Park. Our district consists of two elementary schools, one junior high school, and one high school serving approximately 1200 students.  Approximately 50% of our students qualify for Free and Reduced lunch.  I believe the percentage is actually much higher as our community workforce tends to be seasonal. 

Sugar Beet Schoolhouse

In 2012 our community began building a grocery co-op that celebrates local producers and growers called Sugar Beet Food Co-op. In the process, we organized a 501c3 called Sugar Beet Schoolhouse that would continue to serve our diverse community with food literacy programming once the co-op opened.

In January 2017 Sugar Beet Schoolhouse grew to include a shared use commercial kitchen to serve as an incubator for budding food business, a small greenhouse for growing and education and a teaching kitchen for our cooking classes for all ages.

Food Innovation Kids Lab

The Future Food Institute (FFI) created the Kids Labs with the aim of proposing an innovative and disruptive model of food education for the youngest food innovators starting from the age of five.

Ventura Unified School District: Healthy Schools Project

The Ventura Unified School District Healthy Schools Project (HSP) is the education arm of Food and Nutrition Service's Farm to School Program.  The HSP equips students in 13 high need schools to develop a healthy relationship with whole, local fruits and vegetables through hands-on and standards-aliged cooking, nutrition, farm and garden education.  In collaboration with Education Services, the HSP integrates edible education with Common Core and Next Generation Science, so that these programs can be easily integrated into school and after-school programs.

Common Core Cooking and Gardening for the Next Generation

Common Core Cooking empowers educators to integrate food education by aligning instruction to academic standards. 

South Jackson Elementary: Scienhancement - Garden Based Science Lab

Scienhancement, Garden Based Science Lab, is a K-5 public school class that every students visits once a week.  The mission of Scienhancement is to give students garden based, experiential, hands on learning experiences from seed to mouth, while also encorporating the Georgia Science Standards.  Students are a part of our school garden every step of the way, including harvesting and eating the rewards.  Currently we have 24 raised beds, a greenhouse, and a 2800 sp. ft. field in which we hope to have in full production in the very near future.

Skyline High School

Skyline High School was created in 1970 and was one of the first magnet and career development programs.  The students are about 98% latino and are considered at risk because they have a low socioeconomic status.  My students eat mainly processed foods so it's my efforts to expose them to whole foods.  I've been a culinary arts instructor for Skyline only a year and see the gaps where our program can grow into something pretty amazing.

Little City Sprouts

Little City Sprouts is a nutrition education program of Hartford Food System. The program brings nutrition, gardening and cooking education to preschoolers throughout the Hartford area. Currently, the program services over 250 students in 6 schools. 

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Keiki Kitchen Kauai

Our Motto:  Grow, Cook, Eat, Enjoy

Our Purpose:  Teaching the youth of Hawaii how to grow, cook, eat and enjoy sustainable foods grown on our islands through education.

Why should we teach kids about cooking?

Fight against obesity!  In the US and Europe, obesity among children has become problematic, even being called an obesity epidemic by some. Teaching children to cook encompasses such vital information as nutritional content, food preparation, and calorie information.

Dexter Farm to School

To address the needs of student heath and wellness within the Dexter community and connect students to local food and agriculture, The Dexter Farm to School Program was established in 2013. The mission of DFtS is to cultivate improvements in personal and community wellness through making meaningful connections between students, food and local agriculture.  To fulfill this mission statement, the DFtS program includes farm visits, farmer in the classroom presentations, classroom instruction, garden instruction, and cafeteria servings.

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